Childhood injustices you can't forget

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Please tell me about your childhood injustices.

I was just reminded of one by something on the TV - I found my classmate's bag strap behind a loo at school. It had clearly been hidden there, but not by me - and yet, I got the blame for it! It rankles TO THIS DAY.

Tell me I'm not alone in not letting this stuff go!

I was 11 and the school play needed a short child to play one of the characters. I knew it had to be me as I was the shortest kid in the year. The male teacher chose a girl taller than me who was very pretty with black curly hair and blue eyes. I was mousy and wore glasses.

Fuck Cherry to hell and back and she can take that fucking chauvanist teacher too.

Another one.

I'd lent my sister a bit of equipment.

I needed the equipment for school work and my sister refused to give it to me. Said she was watching a tv programme.

Programme finished I asked for it. Nope. She'll give it to me when she's decided she has time.

Another hour passes and I decide to ask my parents for help. They ask her and she says she'll give it to me when she has time - and they ask me what's the issue

Another hour passes and it's now early evening Sunday and I need to complete this last piece of work so I go into her room to retrieve my property. I did tell her it's what I'd do and she was in there still watching tv.

My sister gives me a whack around the head with an item of furniture. I cry out in pain and then obviously cried.

Parents ask issue.

And it's my fault. She said she'd give me back my item when she was ready sink should have waited or asked them to help

I hated being the eldest to a sister who was a bully because I was always expected to be the one to set an example.

She was such a bully

I was Mary for the nativity play when I was five, we had started rehearsals. A new girl came to the school and cried about everything. The teacher took me to one side and explained that the new girl wanted to be Mary and it would be nice of me to let her. So I did. I've always regretted it. Bitch.

I love how my post was hidden instantly, hopefully they will see the context of the word I used and let the post be visible.

School report: Cranberry is a danger to herself and others on the hockey field.

Actually I was very proud of that, I hated hockey.

So called best friend and I both had very precious scented orange segment rubbers. Somehow she damaged hers. I left mine on the table one day and went to the loo. She switched my perfect one for her damaged one. I never got mine back.

@CranberryCaballe wtf were you doing?

Second year juniors. Our class teacher was in charge of ringing the bell in the corridor to say break time had started. She was off so we had a supply teacher. I knew it was time to ring the bell, so told her. She told me I Was Wrong. I was Not Wrong. There followed a line of teachers asking her why she hadn't rung the bell, where the bell was so they could ring it. Didn't bloody apologise to me, did she. And she didn't let me ring the bell either the utter cow.

when i was about 8 years old my godmother promised she would take me to Paris when i was 16, between 8 and 16 she had her 2nd child (big age gap) and she never took me there it would have been amazing because she was very into culture and encouraging of interesting stuff, i did go to Paris a few years ago and went round still remembering i would have gone with her she was a lovely lady

I was thinking about this last night. In GCSE Physics the teacher put all our marks in a spreadsheet and projected it onto the whiteboard. He had a column that predicted what percentage you needed in the final exam to achieve an A grade. Then he gleefully looked my way and loudly announced in front of the class "the only person in this class who is incapable of achieving an A is Pepsipepsi".
I was a little confused as my coursework had all been A/B grades but was like, oh OK. But then another pupil noticed "no that's Peter in the next spreadsheet row." Peter, who wasn't present at the time, had missed a load of school due to illness so obviously hadn't achieved the required marks. It still infuriates me to this day that the teacher deliberately singled me out to look stupid in front of everyone.
Jokes on him because I got AA in double science.

[quote olderthanyouthink]@CranberryCaballe wtf were you doing? [/quote]
I was made to bully off and stood crying and refused to do it. I was shouted at by the teacher and all my class mates. Well why would I want to faff around in the winter on a school playing field in an aertex top and horrid shorts that went up my bum all the time.

There used to be a girl called Zoe at primary school. She was teachers favourite which really really annoyed me. She would get the best roles in Christmas play, her favourite books of Tracey beaker would get read, if she ever fell the teachers and medical teams would be all over her. If she had a tummy ache, the class will stop and would be all about her. She was a drama Queen and just would over exaggerate everything. She would see a bee 8 meters away, my god the teacher would be like "oh are you ok Zoe, keep away from it" meanwhile poor Molly is about to get stung as it's fixated on her.

On sports day I had a massive fall with my knees cut open an and a cut on my chin with blood pouring. The teacher didn't give a shit. A few of the boys from my class had to carry me to the medical room lol but still to this day I get pissed off that Zoe being the favourite. There was nothing special about her that made her get more attention from the rest of the class. She wasn't more intelligent, well behaved, pretty or cleaner than the rest of the class 🙄 all though I don't know what teachers look at when picking favourites.

14 years old. Our family were very poor( very socially deprived area, both parents unemployed)i got a saturday job working in a cafe and 2 babysitting jobs to try and get some money to buy some nice clothes so the girls at school would stop picking on me. I had my eye on a beautiful pair of velvet boots that cost a fortune. I worked and saved my arse off to get them. I remember my pride and delight when i bought them. I brought them home, showed them off and put them in my room. Later that week i came home to find my 6 year old sister in the garden wearing them for dress up. They were covered in mud and totally ruined. When i went mad I was told I was horrible and selfish for not sharing with my little sister. When i got really upset and said that i hadnt even worn them yet and had saved for 3 months for them, i got sent to my room and grounded. My sister got them for her dress up box and I wasnt allowed to mention them again. Ive got a fab relationship with my sis now, but Christ that still gives me the red mist !!!!

@CranberryCaballe but how does that make you a danger? I went to school with someone who like to swing the stick around a lot and I got a hit to the head one time, he was a danger! (Primary, mixed sex PE)

Year 6 school play. Head teachers daughter got the main part, this didn’t bother me too much as I was happy with my smaller part. Come the big week she’s ill, her understudy was so stressed but learnt every single line in 2 days, I gave up my breaks and lunches to teach understudy the very complex dance we had to do together . Day of the first performance leading girl is off sick with a sore throat , understudy scared but excited. Leading girl performs anyway despite having no voice and lots of solos!

In Reception, a girl wet herself during the nativity.

We were sitting on a blue gym mat and I remember that puddle getting closer and closer to me.

I couldn't get any further to the edge of the mat, and eventually I was sitting in it.

I got taken out of the rehearsal for wetting myself, was changed, and missed my part as lead angel.

Thanks Rosie.

Being given 20p for my first tooth then 2 years later my brother being given 50p for his first tooth and my mum explaining inflation to 7yr old me 😄

I was playing with the neighbours kid on their drive when I was about 7 and the boy wanted to play mummy's & daddy's in his mum's car, so we sat in the car (him drivers side, me passenger side) and he released the handbrake and it rolled down their drive and hit a post.
He blamed me, and I got a right bollocking from his mum & my parents, I didn't understand how the car had moved, as it's quite difficult to take a handbrake off from the passenger side when you're 7 and never done it before!

Being constantly told off for finishing my colouring in before my writing.... I work as a professional artist now

I used to hang round with the trouble making crowd at Senior school but in year 9 I decided to distance myself from them and stay out of trouble.

One sports day not long after a big group of my old friends were messing about on the field while waiting for their events. I trained really hard for the races and was confident I’d do well. I’d sat right away from them with my new sporty friends and was glad I wouldn’t get in trouble.

The head teacher comes over and booms at the group to get inside and then sees me in the distance and shouts “you too Viceversa!!” I tried to explain I wasn’t involved and was called a liar and made to sit inside with the others so I missed all my races I’d been training and looking forward too. Still mad at the injustice 25 years later!

Around 9 and a fellow classmate had given someone the ‘fuck off’ two fingers gesture. Later I was telling someone and showing them. Teacher walked past,saw, and reported me. Had headmaster appointment. He didn’t accept that I was showing not doing. I was outraged.

My lovely old late ma let me down badly when I was around 5. We weren’t allowed to watch much tv. I was desperate to watch The Man With The X Ray Eyes (some 1940s film?). She said no. I spent hours saying “Tmwtxre” kind of whispering it at her. She never do let me watch it. I was devastated for some reason.
Remember that as it it were today !
Might just find it and watch it and raise a glass of forgiveness to my ma.

Dublin 1979 or 1980 or 1981 (too young to remember). Someone put their jam sandwiches in the class bin. The "Big Girls" who were "minding" the class (about 10 years old, it was a different time) decided to identify the culprit by lining everyone up and asking them to swear whether they had done it or not. Being a dozy 3 or 4 or 5 year old, I was last. So when everyone else swore it wasn't them, they never even asked me, just told Miss Bruton they had solved the crime and it was me!

I'm still bitter. I never even had jam sandwiches. It was always easy slices. I'm pretty sure it was Sonia.

I used to ride at a stables near London called Downe Hall Stables. I wrote about it for a school essay and my teacher crossed off the E on Downe and marked me down as I had made a spelling mistake.